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Five people were injured and another man was killed in separate shootings in Baltimore on Sunday, police said. A man was shot around 9:46 p.m. in the 1800 block of McCulloh Street, in Druid Heights, according to police. Medics pronounced him dead at the scene. A 28-year-old man was shot at about...

A third date has been added for the Cinderella’s Closet dress giveaway. The weekend of March 2 and 3, the Aberdeen Lioness Lions Club gave away prom dresses to about 100 students. Because of the extreme weather that weekend — Winter Storm Riley roared through with high winds that caused major traffic...

Opinion

If the University of Maryland Baltimore County’s stunning upset of No. 1 seed Virginia in the NCAA basketball tournament was the first time you ever heard of UMBC, you could be excused for wondering: Is that a community college? No, it’s not. Actually, it’s something of a nerd factory (and proud...

With a Senate vote Friday, Maryland moved a big step closer to ditching its Confederate-sympathizing state song, “Maryland, My Maryland.” Good. At a time when we’re removing Confederate monuments from Baltimore, the State House and beyond, it was notably incongruous. If the House of Delegates agrees...

One of the things that motivated my old friend Andrew Breitbart was his righteous indignation at being called a racist. That's a running theme in his book, "Righteous Indignation." "Andrew Breitbart despised racism," his friend Ben Shapiro told me. "He took pride in rejecting racism and fighting...

Business

The hopes of Maryland’s craft brewers for sweeping changes to the state’s beer laws flattened Friday like an open beer left out too long as a legislative committee rejected Comptroller Peter Franchot’s “Reform on Tap” initiative. Unhappy with Franchot’s bold venture into policymaking, a House committee...

The Maryland Senate has advanced Gov. Larry Hogan's proposal to offer Amazon billions of dollars in tax breaks if it builds a headquarters in Montgomery County — but gave the bait an expiration date. Senators gave initial approval Friday night to what Hogan has described as a $3 billion package...

Seven weeks into the job, Robert Cohen is presiding over a marriage of sorts — a union of East and West coast climbing gym brands. Cohen, a longtime Patagonia executive, is the CEO of newly-merged Earth Treks and Planet Granite. Earth Treks opened its first indoor climbing gym in 1997 in Columbia,...

Saturdays at Mercy Medical Center used to be perversely lucrative. The dialysis clinic across the street was closed on weekends. That meant the downtown Baltimore hospital would see patients with failing kidneys who should have gone to the dialysis center. So Mercy admitted them, collecting as...

Entertainment

The Annapolis Film Festival takes over town next week with its feet planted firmly in the cinema circuit. From the opening night film Thursday, “Beirut,” to the Best of the Fest slate of films Sunday afternoon, film fans will be able to take in nine programs of shorts and scores of features, documentaries...

Employees at the Tilted Kilt Pub and Eatery in White Marsh arrived Sunday morning to find the restaurant had shut down without any notice — one day after the typically long and lucrative St. Patrick’s Day holiday on Saturday. “Most of us worked 12-19+ [hour] shifts yesterday and we had no idea...

Given the barrage of criticism he faced, it seems natural that David Dinkins, the first black mayor of New York, would literally erect a barrier between himself and the visitor sitting on the opposite side of his desk. The artist Terrence A. Reese shot a black-and-white photograph of Dinkins’ office...

Here’s a blow to the Marvel Universe: Maryland actress DeWanda Wise will no longer star in Marvel’s 2019 film “Captain Marvel” due to scheduling conflicts with the second season of Spike Lee's Netflix series "She's Gotta Have It,” according to Wise. Wise, who starred in the first season of Lee’s...

Lifestyle

The year was 1982. A group of artists calling themselves the Bal Tim Ore Underground Club (BTOUC) took the term “underground” to a very literal level when they held a party in an out-of-use tunnel that stretches from the old Mount Royal Station to Camden Yards. Built around 1895, the tunnel runs...

A Facebook post by Rebecca Wald, a Mount Washington psychologist and previous "Jeopardy" contestant, went viral Thursday for its criticism of the "Walk Up, Not Out" campaign and the myth that all school shooters are bullied outcasts.

National Pi Day on 3-14-18 is a delicious way to get freebies and deals to celebrate mathematics. No matter how you add it up or slice it on Wednesday, you'll save with these 10 delicious deals on Pi(s) savory and sweet at participating locations.BJ's Restaurant and Brewhouse: Free one-topping...

National Politics

When the acting head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development asked an agency official to "find money" to pay for a costly makeover of incoming Secretary Ben Carson's office, she recoiled, telling him $5,000 was the statutory max. But that wasn't the end of the conversation, according...

In a ruling that could have reverberations on this year's crucial elections, a federal judge Thursday ruled that Florida's current ban on former felons voting is unconstitutional and needs to be changed as soon as possible. U.S. District Judge Mark Walker issued a blistering ruling that says the...

Georgia's lieutenant governor on Monday threatened to prevent Delta Air Lines from getting a lucrative tax cut after the company ended its discount program with the National Rifle Association, in the latest fallout from a deadly school shooting in Florida. Delta is part of a growing chorus of businesses...

Sun Investigates

A new audit of the Baltimore fire department says the agency fell short of meeting its goals for installing smoke alarms — and then retroactively altered the goals in budget books to look better. The audit, conducted by acting City Auditor Audrey Askew, who reports to Comptroller Joan Pratt, examined...

State Del. Pat McDonough is sponsoring a bill that, if passed, could impact the campaign of his political opponent for Baltimore County executive. McDonough’s bill would require state cabinet secretaries and anyone who is “head of a governmental unit” — including the state’s insurance commissioner...

The Commission on Judicial Disabilities decision Thursday to charge Baltimore District Court Judge Devy Patterson Russell with failing to carry out her duties is a rare disciplinary action by an oversight body established five decades ago to supervise the state’s nearly 300 judges. Complaints to...